Congratulations and happy birthday to the president of Sierra Leone – His Excellency Rtd. Brigadier Julius Maada Bio. What a great day to celebrate your birthday as you are now officially and legally the 5th president of Sierra Leone elected by the people 2018 – 2023.
President Bio succeeded Ernest Bia Koroma on 4th April 2018 as the presidential candidate for the Sierra Leone People’s Party (SLPP). Today (12th May 2018) the president inauguration ceremony took place at the national stadium which was crowded by people from all works of life to witness the special moment. President Maada Bio, 54 born 12th May 1964 at Tihun (Bonthe District) his also married to first lady Fatima Maada Bio.
Bio began his primary education at the Roman Catholic Primary School in Tihun, Bonthe District. After finishing his early years in primary school, Bio was sent to the town of Pujehun to live with his older sister Agnes, who was a primary school teacher in Pujehun. Bio completed his primary education at the Holy Family Primary School in Pujehun. At the completion of his primary education, Bio’s older sister, Agnes, enrolled him at the Bo Government Secondary School in Bo (commonly known as Bo School), a prominent boarding school. Bio spent seven years at Bo School, rising to become school Prefect. Bio graduated from Bo School in 1984 with A-level at age 20. (Wiki)
Maada Bio is an ethnic Sherbro and a practicing Roman Catholic Christian. Bio’s wife, Fatima Bio is a practicing Muslim and a Gambian_Sierra Leonean national, though she grew up in Kono District in Sierra Leone; and her mother was born in Kono District, Sierra Leone and her father is a Gambian native. Bio and Fatima were married in 2013 in London in an interfaith wedding ceremony that was held in a Church and a Mosque prayer services in London. The couple have one child together that was born in London. Bio has three children, all three born in the United States from a previous marriage.
What’s your wish to him for a better Sierra Leone?
